Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis" won international acclaim as an autobiographical tale, told first in the form of a graphic novel, later turned into a film, of a young girl coming of age amid the 1979 ...
Now “Persepolis” has been dubbed in English, with Chiara Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve reprising their roles as Marjane and her mother; Sean Penn voicing Marjane’s dad, Gena Rowlands her ...
The Straits Times selects seven books, both fiction and non-fiction, for those wanting a foothold on Iranian culture. They ...
BA: Why did you decide to use animation to tell your story as a film? You could have turned this into a live action film. MS: For the comics it was not really a choice because this is just my way of ...
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When Marjane Satrapi was 14, her parents decided to spare her the tension of living in war-ravaged Iran. Off she went to Vienna, there to spend her teen years in secular schools, getting a dose of ...
Marjane Satrapi is best known for Persepolis, the best-selling graphic novel about growing up during the Iranian Revolution that she later adapted into an Oscar-nominated animated film with Vincent ...
It only takes a few minutes for Marjane Satrapi to pull out her cigarette, and the effect is complete: the woman I came to know years ago in Persepolis has manifested inside my phone screen. Her ...
In relating a young woman’s experiences growing up in Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the black-and-white animated feature “Persepolis” doesn’t exactly mince words. Neither does Marjane ...
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated Persepolis director Marjane Satrapi is set to helm Radioactive, a Working Title production based on the 2010 graphic novel by Lauren Redniss, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre ...
Even though Marjane Satrapi has been enormously successful as both a cartoonist and director, she's not good—like most Iranians—at accepting a compliment. "I thought it was such a bad idea to make a ...
In relating a young woman’s experiences growing up in Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the black-and-white animated feature “Persepolis” doesn’t exactly mince words. Neither does Marjane ...